The Art of Symbolic Resistance - Uyghur Identities and Uyghur-Han Relations in Contemporary Xinjiang

The Art of Symbolic Resistance provides a longitudinal study of Uyghur-Han relations. Based on locally conducted interviews, Smith Finley argues that contemporary Uyghur identities involve a complex interplay between long-standing intra-group socio-cultural commonalities and common enmity towards the Han Chinese.

About the author

Joanne Smith Finley, Ph.D (Leeds University, 1999) is Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Newcastle University, UK. She previously co-authored an edited volume titled Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia (Ashgate, 2007), and has published a wide range of articles and book chapters on the formation, transformation, hybridisation and globalisation of Uyghur identities in Xinjiang, Northwest China.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne N Smith Finley, Joanne N. Smith Finley
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2013
• EAN: 9789004254916
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25491-6
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 862 g
• Series: Brill's Inner Asian Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology